February 01, 2005

This Is Getting Old

So I'm sitting here monitoring the server, and it screeches to a halt, just like that. And I take a look, and we have 179 incoming trackbacks. So I kill them all, and check again, and there are another 185 of the little bastards.

So trackbacks will be disabled for a few minutes while I get it sorted out.

Update: Looks like it's a new Denial of Service attack aimed specifically at MT. Working now to block it at the web server.

Update: Over 22,000 trackbacks in the past hour. Bloody hell.

Update: Blocked for now, I think.

Posted by Pixy Misa at February 1, 2005 12:51 PM
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#1

Yikes. Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by Jennifer at February 1, 2005 11:47 PM
#2

Thanks Pixy

Posted by Simon at February 2, 2005 12:00 AM
#3

Oh, and we blocked over 150,000 spam comments in the month of January. I'm not sure of the exact number because the log file blew up and I had to delete it.

Posted by Pixy Misa at February 2, 2005 05:11 AM
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